Join The Bloggers United Folding@Home Team
After posting earlier this week about an academic who had created his own supercomputer out of eight PS3s, I’ve just learnt that Sony from March 23rd all PS3s will be able to help the Folding@home program. I think this is a great move and I’m sure that this will add much needed processing power to the programme.
I’ve finally installed Folding@Home on my main PC and I’ve created a team called Bloggers United. If you’re interested in joining the team then install Folding@home and when prompted enter 54262 as your team number. That’s it.
If you haven’t come across Folding@Home yet, it is a distributed computing project where people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world.
All of this processing power is used to investigate and study protein folding, which help to find treatments for diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington’s, Parkinson’s disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.
Definitely a more worthy use of your PC and much better than just running a screen-saver!
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Comment by Zath on 16 March 2007:
I’ll look at getting Folding@Home set up again on my pcs this weekend, I’m guessing I’ll lose my work credits from when I ran it for the Custom PC group.
Have you installed gpu version? I’ve not read a great deal about this version which is a new development since I last used it. I wonder if it makes a big difference.
Also in case anyone doesn’t know, installing the command prompt version means you don’t get the pretty screensaver version, but you do get a lot more work processed.
Comment by Mosey on 16 March 2007:
I’ve been running Folding@Home at uni as my laptop is a bit too slow to handle running the programme and all my other activities at the same. Its currently at around 700 ish of a 750 WU (work unit?) and will be my ’second’ submission - I had almost finished the previous when I accidentally logged in twice to the remote account and the whole thing restarted. Its a great project
I’d suggest using the ‘console’ version rather than the graphical though as it seems less taxing on the computer.
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